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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#2C2C2E">The Rapid Growth Of
Community Solar Gardens</font></div>
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>http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/07/09/3674045/community-solar-<span
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">Designed for those without
rooftop access, these shared solar projects will open up opportunities
for some 50 percent of current U.S. households and businesses that are
unable to host a photovoltaic system due to site unsuitability,
ownership, or multi-unit status</font>...</div>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">On Tuesday, the Obama
administration added to the momentum by announcing a new Energy
Department program to help build community solar systems as part of a
larger effort to install 300 megawatts of solar power in subsidized
housing by 2020.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" color="#000000">"For someone who has never
heard of community solar before, it's basically like we took the
solar panels off a roof, put them in a field, and made them accessible
to everyone," she said.</font></div>
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>http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/07/09/3674045/community-solar-<span
></span>gardens-grow/</div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">"Even doubling our
current rate of decarbonisation, would still lead to emissions
consistent with 6 degrees of warming by the end of the century. To
give ourselves a more than 50% chance of avoiding 2 degrees will
require a six-fold improvement in our rate of
decarbonisation."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Leo Johnson</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Partner, Sustainability and
Climate Change, PricewaterhouseCoopers</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">"Too late for two
degrees? Low carbon economy index" November 2012</font></div>
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000">"Š the serious
meaning in a concept lies in the</font></div>
<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000">difference it will
make to someone if it is true."<br>
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William James (1842 -1910)</font></div>
<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000"><i>Pragmatism</i>.
Meridian Books, 1955</font></div>
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